Description: Tells of the Potomac Institute's role in the Kennedy administration's civil rights policy debates, in helping the Defense Department set up what would become model guidelines for civil rights compliance by federal contractors, and in informing, educating, and reassuring Americans about Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act.
Brief description: HAROLD C. FLEMING directed the Southern Regional Council in Georgia from 1957 to 1961, and led the Potomac Institute as executive vice president and then president, from 1961 to 1987.
Review Quotes:
Harold Fleming deserves a title that the civil rights movement rarely confers upon white people: a Civil Rights Leader. We all gathered at the Potomac Institute. We argued, debated, planned, and executed . . . and then relaxed and prepared for another day on the battlefield of equal opportunity.
--Vernon E. Jordan